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The Sinner

Shantel Tessier

3.82 AVERAGE

lynard69's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My expectations for this book were set by the pace and storyline of The Ritual. That said, I felt that the first two thirds of the book were slow and disjointed. I get this was a lot of trauma affected people dealing with other trauma affected people, but there just did not seem to be a reason for Easton to turn on her as drastically as he did. She would have believed anything, but to induce more trauma did not make sense with his end game and plans. It was a bit much.

However, that said, the last third of the book made up for all the blah in the beginning. There was drama, intrigue, action, mystery, death and love.

Although I wish there was a constancy throughout the book, all in all it worked.

adelisle's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really liked The Ritual so I had high hopes for The Sinner but it was terrible. Not a single character had any redeeming qualities and the "love" interest between Ellie and Sin made no sense. There was no tension whatsoever even though they were allegedly in love with eachother since childhood. I never actually felt like they wanted to be together beyond her "belonging" to him. That dynamic only worked in the first book because there was actual banter, tension, and interactions beyond the sex. Actually none of the relationships in this book had any substance including their friends and parents. Overall super disappointed and I'm glad I am finally done.

sarahlee2000's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional relaxing tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

thebookishbrunette483's review against another edition

5.0

This second book in the L.O.R.D.S. series is probably my favorite with Sin being my favorite bad boy, closely followed by Ryat. I felt like this one was darker than The Ritual, and the beginning had me wondering what in the world I was in store for. The storyline in this book took me for a ride and I loved every minute of it. I couldn't get enough and really wanted more of Sin and Elli. This is the book from the series that will stick with me for a while. Highly recommend you read it!!